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August 24, 1997

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Jose Cruz Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .600 .264
OBP .667 .324
At Bats 5 277
Hits 3 73
• Singles 2 39
• Doubles 0 14
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 1 19
Walks 1 26
RBI’s 1 50

Larry Casian Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 2 0
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Kauffman Stadium - August 24, 1997
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Home Run
Larry Casian
Mike Sweeney
Jeff King
Jed Hansen
Dean Palmer
Jay Bell
Bip Roberts
Johnny Damon
Yamil Benitez
Jose Cruz
Jacob Brumfield
Count: 2-1, 1 Out
Count: 2-1, 1 Out

Cruz hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 13 Garcia bunts towards the mound. Casian fields it and throws to first for the out. Brumfield moves to second.
Top 13 Brumfield hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 12 Damon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Samuel scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 12 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Sprague fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Benitez moves to third.
Bottom 12 Sweeney hits a popup towards first. Delgado settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 12 Roberts bunts towards the mound. Crabtree fields it and throws to first for the out. Benitez moves to second.
Bottom 12 Tim Crabtree now pitching. Benitez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 12 Samuel strikes out.
Top 12 Santiago hits a fly ball into right field. Benitez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 12 Jeff King now playing first base. Larry Casian now pitching. Green hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hansen scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 11 Jeff King pinch hits for Larry Sutton. King hits a ball on the ground towards short. Garcia fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 11 Palmer hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Hansen moves to second.
Bottom 11 Davis hits a fly ball into center field. Brumfield settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 11 Hansen hits a fly ball into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 11 Dan Plesac now pitching. Damon strikes out.
Top 11 Sprague strikes out.
Top 11 Delgado takes first base on ball four.
Top 11 There goes Cruz. The throw from Sweeney and he is out, Bell applying the tag.
Top 11 Carter strikes out.
Top 11 Cruz hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 10 Bell hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Sweeney hits a line drive into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Roberts is walked intentionally.
Bottom 10 Benitez bunts towards first. Delgado scoops it up and throws to first, with Samuel covering, for the out. Sutton moves to second.
Bottom 10 Benito Santiago now catching. Sutton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 10 Garcia strikes out.
Top 10 Brumfield hits a line drive into center field. Damon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Perez moves to third.
Top 10 Robert Perez pinch runs for Charlie O'Brien. Samuel bunts towards the mound. Montgomery fields it and throws to first for the out. Perez moves to second.
Top 10 Bip Roberts now playing left field. Mike Sweeney now catching. Jay Bell now playing shortstop. Jeff Montgomery now pitching. Yamil Benitez now plO'Brien hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Palmer strikes out.
Bottom 9 Davis is walked intentionally.
Bottom 9 Hansen hits a fly ball into left field, out of the reach of Cruz. Hansen reaches second base with a double. Roberts scores. Sweeney goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 9 Damon strikes out.
Bottom 9 Mike Sweeney pinch runs for Mike Macfarlane. Jay Bell pinch hits for Shane Halter. Bell strikes out.
Bottom 9 Macfarlane hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Roberts moves to second.
Bottom 9 Kelvim Escobar now pitching. Bip Roberts pinch hits for Jermaine Dye. Roberts takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Green hits a ball on the ground towards third. Palmer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Sprague strikes out.
Top 9 Matt Whisenant now pitching. Delgado hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hansen scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Benitez strikes out.
Bottom 8 Sutton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Garcia fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 8 Palmer hits a fly ball into right field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Paul Quantrill now pitching. Davis hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Carter strikes out.
Top 8 Cruz hits a fly ball into right field. Dye settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Garcia hits a fly ball into center field. Damon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Hansen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Sprague fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 7 Damon hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Halter hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Carpenter fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 7 Brumfield hits a line drive towards short. Halter reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Hector Carrasco now pitching. There's a wild pitch. Samuel moves to third.
Top 7 Samuel hits a fly ball into center field. Damon picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Damon. Samuel moves to second.
Top 7 O'Brien hits a fly ball into left field. Benitez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Green strikes out.
Top 7 Sprague hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Macfarlane hits a line drive into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Dye strikes out.
Bottom 6 Benitez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Juan Samuel now playing second base. Carlos Garcia now playing shortstop. Sutton hits a line drive towards short. Garcia reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Delgado hits a ball on the ground towards short. Halter scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Carter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hansen fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Brumfield scores. Garcia moves to third. Cruz moves to second.
Top 6 Cruz takes first base on ball four. Brumfield moves to third. Garcia moves to second.
Top 6 Garcia hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Brumfield moves to second.
Top 6 Gregg Olson now pitching. Brumfield hits a ball on the ground towards third. Palmer fields it and throws to second for the out. O'Brien scores.
Top 6 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards first. Sutton fields the ball and throws to Bones covering. Safe. Green scores. O'Brien moves to third.
Top 6 O'Brien hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Delgado scores. Green moves to second.
Top 6 Green hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Delgado moves to second.
Top 6 Sprague hits a fly ball into right field. Dye settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Delgado hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Palmer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Davis hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 5 Hansen takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Damon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Halter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Macfarlane moves to third.
Bottom 5 Macfarlane hits a ball on the ground off the glove of Delgado, and into shallow right field. Macfarlane reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Carter strikes out.
Top 5 Cruz strikes out.
Top 5 Garcia hits a ball on the ground towards first. Sutton scoops it up and throws to first, with Bones covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Dye strikes out.
Bottom 4 Benitez strikes out.
Bottom 4 Sutton hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 4 Palmer hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Davis moves to second.
Bottom 4 Davis takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Hansen strikes out.
Top 4 Brumfield strikes out.
Top 4 Perez strikes out.
Top 4 O'Brien hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Green hits a line drive into center field. Damon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Damon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garcia scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Halter hits a fly ball into right field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Macfarlane hits a ball on the ground towards third. Sprague fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Sprague hits a fly ball into right field. Dye settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Delgado hits a fly ball into center field. Damon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Garcia tags and scores.
Top 3 Carter strikes out.
Top 3 Cruz hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Garcia moves to third.
Top 3 Garcia hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Dye strikes out.
Bottom 2 Benitez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Sutton hits a fly ball into center field. Brumfield settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Palmer strikes out.
Top 2 Brumfield hits a ball on the ground towards short. Halter fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Perez takes first base on ball four. Sprague moves to third. Green moves to second.
Top 2 O'Brien hits a fly ball into left field. Benitez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Delgado tags and scores.
Top 2 Green hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Delgado moves to third. Sprague moves to second.
Top 2 Sprague hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Delgado moves to second.
Top 2 Delgado hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 There goes Hansen. The throw from O'Brien and he is out, Garcia applying the tag.
Bottom 1 Davis strikes out.
Bottom 1 Hansen is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 1 Damon strikes out.
Top 1 Carter hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bones fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Cruz hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 1 Garcia hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hansen scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Brumfield hits a popup towards short. Halter settles under it and makes the catch for the out.